Two weeks ago I asked the city to do something about the graffiti on one of its disused civic buildings. Here’s my complaint to the snitch site: “100 Wyse Road. Former Dartmouth Heritage museum practically covered in spray paint, especially on two sides facing Dillman Park, from simple scrawl of ‘suck your mom’ in red, to elaborate SKEP throw-up.” The building is in the Capital District, so my report — service request number 2543142 — is a priority call for the graffiti clean-up squad. Theoretically. Instead of being done in three days, it’s left undone for 14 days.
My official complaint through official channels comes a few months after this column about the city’s dumb graffiti war from November, 2006. That’s when the Graffiti Management Plan, and the snitch site, were unveiled. My column published yesterday follows the latest developments to the plan and explains my snitching campaign, which is trying to show city officials the futility of their graffiti-fighting ways.
This article appears in May 3-9, 2007.